《英美文学欣赏》共由22个单元组成。英国文学和美国文学各11个单元。英国文学包括五位散文家和六位小说家的经典名著。本书收入了散文家如培根、约翰逊博士、王尔德、罗素、福斯特等的名篇。涉及的小说篇目有《傲慢与偏见》、《简·爱》、《双城记》、《人性枷锁》、《儿子与情人》、《一个青年艺术家的肖像》等。另外,还有莎士比亚的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》“阳台相会”节选和一首十四行诗以及彭斯、华兹华斯、雪莱和丁尼生的**短诗。
美国文学中共选人三位散文家和七位小?家的不朽名篇。主要有富兰克林的自传、爱默森和梭罗的散文名篇,马克·吐温的小说《哈克贝利·芬历险记》和《汤姆·索亚历险记》、詹姆斯的《女士画像》、欧·亨利的短篇小说《麦琪的礼物》和《警察与赞美诗》以及福克纳的**短篇《献给爱米丽小姐的玫瑰花》。其他名家的长篇小说节选有《了不起的盖茨比》、《麦田里的守望者》和海明威的《老人与海》等。另外还有《生命礼赞》、《未选之路》等既有哲理又优美可诵的短诗。

i an appreciation of english literature
unit i william shakespeare
romeo and juliet (act ii, scene ii)
sonnet 18
unit 2 english essayists ( i )
francis bacon
of studies
of marriage and single life
samuel johnson
letter to lord chesterfield
unit 3 english poets
robert burns
auld lang syne-
a red, red rose
william wordsworth
i wandered lonely as a cloud.
percy bysshe shelley
to
alfred tennyson
the eagle
break, break, break
unit 4 jane austen
pride and prejudice (chapter i, ii, lviii)
unit 5 charles dickens
a tale of two cities (chapter i, xv)
unit 6 charlotte bronte
jane eyre (chapter xxxvii)
unit 7 david herbert lawrence
sons and lovers (chapter ix)
unit 8 william somerset maugham
of human bondage (chapter lxi, xcvi)
unit 9 english essayists (ii)
bertrand russell
what i have lived for
how to grow old
edward morgan forster
my wood
unit 10 james joyce
a portrait of the artist as a young man(chapter iv)
ii an appreciation of american literature
unit 1 ralph waldo emerson
nature (chapter i)
unit 2 american poets ( i )
henry wadsworth longfellow
a psalm of life,
the tide rises, the tide falls
walt whitman
song of myself (1, 10)
unit 3 american poets (il')
emily dickinson
i am nobody! who are you?
you cannot put a fire out
the brain -- is wider than the sky
the soul selects' her own society
because i could not stop for death
robert frost
stopping by woods on a snowy evening
the road not taken
fire and ice
unit 4 mark twain
the adventures of tom sawyer (chapter ii)
the adventures of huckleberry finn (chapter xxxi)
unit 5 henry james
the portrait of a lady (chapter xlii)
unit 6 o. henry
the gift of the magi
the cop and the anthem
unit 7 f. scott fitzgerald
the great gatsby (from chapter iii)
unit 8 william faulkner
a rose for miss emily (i, ii, iii, iv, v)
unit 9 jerome david salinger
the catcher in the rye (chapter xxll)
unit 10 ernest hemingway
the old man and the sea (excerpt)
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